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macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

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2603 points mattsolle | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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modeless ◴[12 Nov 20 21:30 UTC] No.25075336[source]▶
You've got to be kidding me. When Apple's servers are down, all Macs worldwide start freezing randomly? My XCode is hanging during builds, is this why?

This code signing enforcement stuff has gone way too far. Heads should roll for this.

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twoodfin ◴[12 Nov 20 21:33 UTC] No.25075380[source]▶
Almost certainly so. Apple has built chains of certificate trust very deep into the OS, along with apparently an assumption that this particular revocation service check is reliable & fast enough to call out to the network a lot.
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Aperocky ◴[13 Nov 20 00:05 UTC] No.25077062[source]▶
Oh man, imagining a DDOS to fail that over.

Imagine how many people would lost their productiveness, maybe not at the big corps or govt (I assume they use a version of mac that call somewhere else/don't). But very very many people.

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1. notnap ◴[13 Nov 20 03:06 UTC] No.25078347{3}[source]▶
Today I was late to join a corporate conference call. It took like 5 mins to start conferencing software.

First time ever I'm genuinely frustrated with apple - macs are not those unicorn tools anymore that work reliable